Quote from CodeLyoko1 :

this new update from iracing made it undriveable. believe me. countersteering is impossible because youll just crash to the other side. grip level is very low. my times are now 2 seconds slower then before (all cars i believe)

wat.

It's impossible to crash now. You can hold a 45 degree slide in the star mazda all week...

"Fernando Alonso finds out free icecream is being handed out to celebrate the return of Kimi Räikkönen to Formula 1."

Looks great, but I really really hope they'll work on the UI a bit before release. I'm sure they will, but... selecting a menu item to be able to select characters? Youch

Quote from Bose321 :

What are you trying to say? That the game doesn't suck? Get to the point please.

MW3 will sell millions of copies and prove to be a highly succesful game, albeit far less succesful than its predecessor(s). It's just a game based on years of evolving a game around certain ideas, and it works.

It's exactly the same - exactly - for battlefield 3. You're in a battlefield, there are vehicles, you shoot people and rank up. What's new? destructible environments? They would have had it in 1942 if the technology allowed it. It's just evolution based on a concept that has existed for years and years.

Activision just got complacent (blame Treyarch for being unable to push innovation through) and didn't see any direct competitors to threat them. So DICE smartly made themselves a competitor with some clever competitor-based marketing and now we're all here comparing apples and oranges and making a big fuss about two entirely different games.

So the point, Bose, is that everbody is getting played in some way. MW3 people are getting played for paying for an expansion, BF3 crusaders are getting played for being marketing tools and I am getting played for responding to trolls and pissing not just MW3 or BF3 fans off, but all of them at the same time.

Click on any Modern Warfare 3 thread in any forum on the internet, find posts by people who bought BF3 saying that MW sucks.

It's been a long time since it was this cool to bash a product. Like, Sega vs Nintendo long... I'm not even remotely interested in either game and my anti-troll medication needs to be upped to its maximum to keep me sane.

Some company's marketing machine has done a good job anyway; tell people during your first demo that this game blows MW3 out of the water with better technology, better guns, better maps, better anything - then watch an army of people bash that exact game. Poetry.

What, how is this even a discussion?

Quote from BlueFlame :

I won't lie when someone told me Jobbs died, I lol'd.

Guess there won't be as much high-5'ing goin on at the next Apple store opening eh?

Now the oracle of Apple is dead, even some people who never liked Apple products are coming in here saying RIP 'n shit.

The death of someone so passionate about his vision on tech products (something which we all use) is always sad. I have never bought an Apple product and never will because I disagree with that vision and laugh at iPad users (in particular), but I can still respect the man for what he did.

Ultimately the world of technology has just become a little bit more boring without Steve Jobs, and nobody likes to be bored.

Quote from RiseAgainstMe! :

I seem to recall from one of my classes in college that there is (on the conservsative side) a 6% chance that life exists somewhere in this galaxy right now (obviously, we do). I'm too lazy to look up the entire mathematical equation right now, but it involved many statistics about the most necessary features for life on a planet. Now, if there is a 6% chance that life exists in this galaxy right now, it should basically be the same for all other galaxys. Unless there is something about galaxies I don't know. All of those 6% chances combine together to make a chance that is pretty much 100% that there is life elsewhere in the universe.

As for contacting them from god knows how many light years away... yeah, no. Not in the forseeable future, unless we get a huge breakthrough in tech. It makes me sad, I wish I could know what else is out there.

And there is a lot of shitty, shitty science that people use to justify UFO sightings and encounters. The burden of proof is on the sighters, and no one has been able to prove it even slightly convincingly to me.

Drake's equation, if anyone wants to look it up (at least, this is the only mathematical equation I can think of)

It's really important when a person that happened to live on roughly the same patch of land as you - as defined by people long ago - invented something of some importance.

I think iRacing has many fundamental problems with their engine which are now becoming a severe limitation on the sim. Seems like the whole engine was copied from NASCAR 2003 and they are severely limited by the amount of detail the engine can produce, since it was made for relatively small tracks: ovals. Long Beach has been scanned for ages but can't be finished because the track would be impossible to handle for any PC. Suzuka and Spa are already pushing the engine to the max and so much time is lost on optimising instead of doing other neat things with the (graphical) development of the sim...

The multiclass issues are just another example of clunky design really.

I nostalgia'd

Quote from DevilDare :

Exactly, for you. You are not the only one who plays iRacing though.

I'll retract my letter of advice to David Kaemmer on why he should definitely not make TC for the cars because it would kill the fun.

No really, why are you so interested in what I regard to be fun and why I should keep these particular opinions to myself? It's not like I am developing the sim, or what?

Pretty sure I define what's fun for me. How about you?

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Quote from DevilDare :

Harder doesn't mean more realistic. And if its realism iRacing is aiming for, it should have TC like the real thing does.

True, but I was talking about fun, not realism

Quote from DeKo :

When a car and it's power delivery is designed for TC, it's very problematic without it. Anyway, traction control is simply faster, otherwise they wouldn't have it on the car.

Not to mention more boring and fun-killing. The car isn't hard to handle really...

Traction control, what for? Throttle control is what it's all about

I only drove the Skippy for a couple of laps around Summit Point and it did feel like an understeering pig. Meh.

Quote from Wilko868 :

The site is back up already. Downloading incredibly slowly as normal for an iRacing build :P

You mean 3.5mb/s? :P

By now I've achieved orbit quite a few times. The challenge is now to fling the spacecraft into space after slingshotting around the planet. I'm only able to reach around 6500m/s (all vanilla parts) but it's always fun!

I really can't wait to see what they end up doing with the rest of this game. Even this very basic concept has kept me busy for hours

Quote from spanks :

Are there many of us that just absolutely hates the NTM on the road courses? I really hope it drives better on a real road race car. My check book is hanging in the balance....I'll either be grabbing a year + the new cars and suzuka or letting my subscription lapse for the first time since pre release.

Meh, I hate the car but the general idea of the NTM will stay the same I imagine. There's just going to be a very thin line in which to race and less room for error. I'm very curious to see what the Skippy will feel like.

I wrote a long rant, but it's better to offer my condolences than to start an argument.

I was in Oslo not too long ago and it's a very friendly and vibrant city. It's hard to imagine the chaos and madness behind all of this. Norway will bounce back from this and will lose nothing of its magic, I'm sure.

Here's an amazing video on getting into orbit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RvVjysJKB4

I tried to mimick it, but not enough patience to do it properly

I can the power!

At least the hazard perception test makes sense for you guys in the UK. Over here we get static images where you can select "brake, off throttle, do nothing":



It works alright for this example, but man there are some ambiguous situations where you just can't estimate properly how the traffic is flowing. It's so artificial...

I like how you people think, strengthening cognitive dissonance with assumptions is such a powerful way of making yourself a total believer